Project: FIBOIS Competition
Year: 2026
Award: Winner / 1st Prize
Type: Design Competition — Product Design
Collaboration: Paul Farthouat
Designed and crafted for the FIBois call for projects, this clock reinterprets the traditional Comtoise clock while paying tribute to family memories. Made from Landes maritime pine, it is deeply rooted in the culture of a living region. Tailored for modern spaces, it invites you to look up, creating a suspended moment where eyes meet and connect.
An award-winner at the 2026 FIBois call for projects, this design was one of 24 selected from a large pool of entries. Thanks to this distinction, our work will be exhibited at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris this September, as part of the prestigious Paris Design Week.
For this edition, FIBois aimed to foster exchanges through collaborations between designers and manufacturers, as well as through the projects emerging from them. Connection, sharing, and conviviality stand as core values, placing this approach at the heart of human interactions.
Our collaboration on this project began with meeting Gascogne Bois, a certified Landes pine producer. Being natives of the South-West of France, collaborating with a local player in the timber industry felt completely natural and obvious to us.
As designers, elevating a staple material that is sometimes overlooked in contemporary furniture represented a particularly exciting challenge.
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By reinterpreting an object as iconic as the family clock, our ambition is to restore the prestige of a traditional piece that remains deeply rooted in our culture. Through this creation, we invite people to look up and shift their perspective on the time we share. It is an opportunity to suspend the moment and catch someone else's eye, if only for an instant.
We personally crafted the final prototype for a photo shoot captured by Bastien Volny-Anne. The photography took place in two distinct locations: the Mont-de-Marsan media library and a maritime pine forest.
